The Month Without Equal

🌼🔆🌼The Sahifa Sajjadiya: A Treasury of the Secrets of Ramadan🌼🔆🌼
🔹Weekly Sessions: A Comprehensive Commentary on Supplication 44 of the Sahifa Sajjadiya

📅 Date: 1404/12/07 — 8 Ramadan 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Complete Spiritual Wayfaring through Supplication 44,” “The Garden of Paradise,” “The All-Embracing Sanctuary of Lovers,” “The Secret of Liberation,” “A Comprehensive Commentary on Supplication 44 of the Sahifa Sajjadiya,” and more. Summary with supplement, 1404.12.07. Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

❇️Knowing God in the City of God
💫🔆 وَ أَلْهِمْنَا مَعْرِفَةَ فَضْلِهِ وَ إِجْلَالَ Its sanctity
🔆 O God, inspire us with knowledge of the surpassing virtue of Your month and reverence for its sacred rites.
The Sahifa Sajjadiya is a divinely granted supplication offered on our behalf.
The Sahifa Sajjadiya is a guide to the grace and excellence of the blessed month of Ramadan.

❇️A month without equal
The blessed month of Ramadan has a singular character, unlike any other.

❇️A golden charter for managing one’s being in Ramadan

From the summit of his perfection of being, Imam Sajjad (PBUH) reveals to us, in Supplication 44, the immense manifestations of the blessed month of Ramadan.
Without doubt, unless we look from the shores of the Sajjadiya toward the horizon of the blessed month of Ramadan, we will remain unaware of this great month’s secrets!
To behold the perfection of the blessed month from the grandeur of the Sajjadiya is to leap from earth to the heavens of this blessed month!
To behold the beauty of the blessed month through the adornment of the Muhammadan tradition is to see Ramadan’s beauty through the great cup of the Sajjadiya.
Supplication 44 is, in truth, the key to the secrets of the home of the blessed month of Ramadan.
The share and benefit we draw from the blessed month of Ramadan through this supplication equals our initial share multiplied by the grandeur of the Sajjadiya.
We must again pass from the world of Supplication 44 into that of Supplication 45, which leads us from one summit of the blessed month to the still loftier peaks of Ramadan!
To look upon existence and the world of servitude from Imam Sajjad’s (PBUH) observatory guides us from the frozen state of near-death to an everlasting, life-giving existence!

✳️A few fountains from blessed Supplication 44
(8) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ قِفْنَا فِيهِ عَلَى مَوَاقِيتِ الصَّلَوَاتِ الْخَمْسِ بِحُدُودِهَا الَّتِي حَدَّدْتَ، وَ فُرُوضِهَا الَّتِي فَرَضْتَ، وَ وَظَائِفِهَا الَّتِي وَظَّفْتَ، وَ أَوْقَاتِهَا الَّتِي وَقَّتَّ (9) وَ أَنْزِلْنَا فِيهَا مَنْزِلَةَ الْمُصِيبِينَ لِمَنَازِلِهَا، الْحَافِظِينَ لِأَرْكَانِهَا، الْمُؤَدِّينَ لَهَا فِي أَوْقَاتِهَا عَلَى مَا سَنَّهُ عَبْدُكَ وَ رَسُولُكَ- صَلَوَاتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ- فِي رُكُوعِهَا وَ سُجُودِهَا وَ جَمِيعِ فَوَاضِلِهَا عَلَى أَتَمِّ الطَّهُورِ وَ أَسْبَغِهِ، وَ أَبْيَنِ الْخُشُوعِ وَ أَبْلَغِهِ.
🔆O God, bless Muhammad and his family, and make us mindful in this month of the times of the five daily prayers, together with the limits and rulings You have set, the obligations You have prescribed, the duties You have assigned, and the times You have specified.

🔆Let us attain in these prayers the station of those who have reached their true rank: those who uphold the pillars of prayer and perform it at its appointed times, as Your servant and Messenger (Your blessings be upon him and his family) prescribed—in bowing and prostration and in all its excellences—with the most complete and encompassing purification, and the clearest and most profound humility.

❇️Ramadan: the month of reviving prayer
Prayer is the appointed meeting with God. It has its boundaries, and its realm is vast and immense.
Those who lead, uphold, and truly perform prayer are Muhammad and the family of Muhammad (PBUH)!
Prayer is a ceremony of love, a tender act of mercy, a generous expression of affection, a meeting with God, and a divine invitation.
Those who love God count the moments until prayer; they wait for its appointed times and eagerly anticipate retreating into solitude with the Eternal Beloved.
Prayer is the measure of love!
Who are the ones who taste the sweetness of prayer?
Prayer must awaken in the human heart, until one becomes constant in prayer. Prayer is among the noble soldiers of the intellect, which dwells in the heart.

❇️A journey through prayer
Prayer is a journey, a complete spiritual wayfaring.
Prayer must be performed with consummate artistry.
Prayer is a place of intimacy and tender affection with the Beloved.
In truth, prayer is a graceful, loving, faithful dance.

❇️Prayer: the final stage of purification
In prayer, purification bears fruit and reaches completion. Ablution is the beginning; prayer brings it to fulfillment. Purity is the secret behind all beauty.
Prayer is a field in which the soul is made crystal clear.
The pillars of prayer must be given their full due: with the deepest humility, the utmost gentleness, surrender and release, and with divine aid.